Curriculum Vitae DAVID J. BJERK

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1 Curriculum Vitae DAVID J. BJERK Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Office: Bauer Center North, Rm 313 Claremont McKenna College Phone: E. Ninth Street cmc.edu Claremont, CA Citizenship: U.S.A Appointments and Affiliations Associate Professor of Economics (with tenure), Claremont McKenna College, March 2010 present. Research Fellow, IZA (Institute for Study of Labor), June 2009 present. Research Affiliate, National Poverty Center - Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, November 2008 present. Assistant Professor of Economics, Claremont McKenna College, July 2007 February Research Fellow in Population Studies, RAND Corporation, May 2005-April Assistant Professor of Economics, McMaster University, July 2003 June Education Ph.D., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S., Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.A., Economics, Carleton College, Research Fields of Interest Public Economics, Law and Economics, Labor Economics. Publications (Peer Reviewed) Bjerk, David and Caleb Mason. (2014). The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross Border Drug Couriers International Review of Law and Economics 39: Bjerk, David and Caleb Mason. (2013). "Inter-Judge Sentencing Disparity on the Federal Bench: An Examination of Drug Smuggling Cases in the Southern District of California." Federal Sentencing Reporter 25(3):

2 Bjerk, David. (2012). Re-examining the Longer-term Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Market Outcomes. Economics of Education Review 31(1): Bjerk, David. (2010). Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty. Journal of Urban Economics 68: Bjerk, David. (2009). How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality? Journal of Quantitative Criminology 25(4): Bjerk, David. (2009). Beauty vs. Earnings: Gender Differences in Human Capital, Earnings, and Priorities Over Spousal Characteristics in a Matching Model. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 69: Bjerk, David. (2008). Glass Ceilings or Sticky Floors? Statistical Discrimination in a Dynamic Model of Promotion and Hiring, The Economic Journal 118(July): Bjerk, David. (2008). On the Role of Plea Bargaining and the Distribution of Sentences in the Absence of Judicial System Frictions. International Review of Law and Economics 28(1): 1-7 (Lead Article). Bjerk, David. (2007) Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer: The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defendant Guilt is Uncertain, American Law and Economics Review 9(2): (Lead Article). Bjerk, David and Seungjin Han. (2007). Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality, Journal of Public Economics 91(5-6): Bjerk, David. (2007). Racial Profiling, Statistical Discrimination, and the Effect of a Colorblind Policy on the Crime Rate, Journal of Public Economic Theory 9(3): Bjerk, David. (2007). The Differing Nature of Black-White Wage Inequality Across Occupational Sectors. Journal of Human Resources 42(2): Bjerk, David. (2007). Measuring the Relationship Between Youth Criminal Participation and Household Economic Resources, Journal of Quantitative Criminology 23(1): Bjerk, David. (2005). Making the Crime Fit the Penalty: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion Under Mandatory Minimum Sentencing. Journal of Law and Economics 48(2):

3 Working Papers "How Mandatory are Mandatory Minimum Sentences and How Much Do They Impact Sentencing?" Request for revision at Journal of Legal Studies. In Front of and Behind the Veil of Ignorance: An Analysis of Motivations for Redistribution Inside and Outside the Lab. Request for revision at Social Choice and Welfare. "Mandatory Minimum Reform and the Sentencing of Crack Cocaine Defendants: An Analysis of the Fair Sentencing Act." Request for revision at Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. Using a Ratio Test to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates (with Eric Helland) "How Uniform is Justice Across Districts? Evidence from United States Federal Drug Convictions" (with Caleb Mason) "Seeking Information in a World of Biased Misinformation." Other Publications Bjerk, David. (2008). What will it take to shatter the glass ceiling? Maybe remodeling the basement. voxeu.org (Oct 15, 2008). Grants and Awards Lowe Institute Research Grant, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Claremont McKenna College. Lowe Institute Research Grant (with Serkan Ozbeklik), May 2008, Claremont McKenna College. Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Research Grant, April 2005, McMaster University. Arts Research Board Travel Grant, McMaster University, December Arts Research Board Travel Grant, McMaster University, May Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, University of Wisconsin, May Invited Seminar Presentations University of California - Davis, Department of Economics, May Claremont Graduate University, Department of Economics and Politics, Nov University of Colorado-Denver, Department of Economics, Oct University of Houston/Rice University, Departments of Economics, Oct

4 Claremont Graduate University, Dept of Economics and Politics, April University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) Dept. of Economics, December University of California Irvine, Department of Economics, October Vanderbilt University, Law School, February University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Economics, January San Diego State University, Department of Economics, April University of Southern California, Department of Economics, March University of California Berkeley, Goldman School of Public Policy, October University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Department of Economics, June Emory University, Department of Economics, April RAND Corporation, November Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics, October Texas A&M University, Department of Economics, October Rice University/University of Houston, Departments of Economics, October York University, Department of Economics, September University of Quebec at Montreal, Department of Economics, November University of British Columbia, Department of Economics, October Simon Fraser University, Department of Economics, October University of Toronto, Department of Economics, April University of Waterloo, Department of Economics, October University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics, April Brown University, Department of Economics, March Washington and Lee University, Department of Economics, February McMaster University, Department of Economics, February RAND Corporation, January University of Kentucky, Department of Economics, January University of Wisconsin, Department of Economics, November Conference Presentations and Participation Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics, Claremont McKenna College, April 2016 Wisconsin-Madison, June 2014 Justice Database Meeting, Center for Policing Equity, Department of Justice: Washington DC, April 2014 (invited participant). Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Pennsylvania Law School, October 2013 Wisconsin-Madison, June 2013 (invited participant). American Law and Economics Association Meetings, Vanderbilt University Law School, May 2013 Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics, Claremont McKenna College, April 2013 (discussant). Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Northwestern University Law School, November 2011 (presenter) 4

5 San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank Applied Micro Conference, July 2010 (presenter) Wisconsin-Madison, June 2010 (invited participant). Southern California Applied Economics Workshop, Claremont McKenna College, April 2010 Wisconsin-Madison, June 2009 (invited participant). Crime and Population Dynamics Summer Workshop, U. of Maryland, June 2009 (discussant). Canadian Law and Economics Association, University of Toronto, September 2008 (presenter, session chair). National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Economics of Crime Working Group, July 2008 (invited participant). Wisconsin-Madison, June 2008 Crime and Population Dynamics Summer Workshop, U. of Maryland, June 2007 Population Association of America, New York, March 2007 Canadian Law and Economics Association Meetings, University of Toronto, Sept Workshop on Criminology and the Economics of Crime, U. of Maryland, June 2006 American Law and Economics Association Meetings, U. California Berkeley, May 2006 Population Association of America, Los Angeles, April 2006 (session chair, discussant). Canadian Economics Association, McMaster University, May 2005 (session chair). Canadian Public Economics Research Group, McMaster University, May 2005 American Law and Economics Association Meetings, New York University, May 2005 Meetings of the Southern Economics Association, New Orleans, Nov CIBC Project on Human Capital and Productivity, U. of Western Ontario (session chair). Canadian Public Economics Research Group, University of Toronto, June 2004 Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists, San Antonio, May 2004 (presenter, discussant). Meetings of the Society of Labor Economists, Toronto, September 2003 American Law and Economics Association Meetings, Harvard University, May

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